Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(09-21-2020, 06:57 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: This is supposed to be a generational theory forum but, once again, it's clear that I'm the only member of this forum who considers generational theory to be valid.

There is a lot of good research going on in Generational Dynamics.  There is stuff to be gained.  

Alas, you are obsessed with xenophobia in a similar way with how Classic is centered on violence or the Republicans used to embrace Neo Cons in the days before the American people rejected boots on the ground.  I begin to wonder how much this is a conservative trend, an obsession with violence and keeping to how things used to be.  It meshes with how the Republicans are handling the violent racist policing issue.  (WEIRD too.)

You also let your personal ideological obsessions vastly misunderstand those whose values are dissimilar to your own.  Thus a reader who doesn’t share your ideology has severe doubts about anything that involves understanding folks.  That may not have much to do with the theory, but taints your work badly.

Gets to be you have to take the research with lots of salt, so much so that Generational Dynamics is pretty salty.  I can embrace lots of theories relatively intact: turnings, civilizations, ages, behavioral psychology, how humans evolved, and I’m working on WIERD.  These occasionally clash with each other, requiring a little adjustments here and there to accept the wisdom of the various perspectives.  For example, you cannot count on a theory without question if they mostly take samples from the Industrial Age, and try to apply it in the Information Age.  It is just that Generational Dynamics requires a lot more adjustments than most theories I deal with regularly.  Many are flaws with the author, not flaws with Generational Dynamics.